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Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk March 4, 2012<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>At the bottom of the page you will find the current and most updated list of individuals who believe that the Palestinian solidarity movement should operate as a Stalinist synagogue.\u00a0 The Atzmon Defamation League is a list of a few Tribal Marxists and one\u00a0angry Arab collaborator<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>who added their name to\u00a0an open declaration<\/span><\/a>. They all agree that Atzmon should be silenced.<\/h5>\n
Amidst the success of my latest book\u00a0The Wandering Who<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and my current\u00a0USA coast to coast tour<\/span><\/a>, the Atzmon Defamation league is in a state of a panic. They have a good reason: my very simple message spreads very fast, and it questions \u2014 If\u00a0Israel defines itself as the Jewish State and its tanks are decorated with Jewish symbols, then aren\u2019t we entitled to ask who are the Jews? What is Judaism? What is Jewishness? And what are the relationships between those three?<\/h5>\n
So far, my American tour seems to progress very well. My very experienced tour manager insists that it is actually a breakthrough. In spite of the Zionist and the Anti Zionist Zionists\u2019 (AZZ) relentless campaign against me, I give a talk every night, I give three to five interviews a day (radio and TV), I meet the most wonderful people on this planet, I speak about Jazz, Jewishness and apartheid, and I explore the true meaning of the Jewish State and its lobbies around the world.<\/h5>\n
And yet, my detractors seem to be devastated. My personal Defamation League is clearly outraged by some of my statements \u2014 they insist that I am a \u2018racist\u2019 and \u2018anti Semitic\u2019. They contend that people like me do not have room in the \u2018Palestinian solidarity movement\u2019.\u00a0 Is it that they know better who is \u2018kosher\u2019 and who is not?<\/h5>\n
Yet, in spite of their efforts they have still failed to find even a single racist or anti semitic statement in my entire body of work. As embarrassing as it may be, in the list of quotes they cherry picked, I actually refer to Jewish ideology, Jewish culture and Jewish heritage \u2014 but I never\u00a0criticise Jews as a race, a people or an ethnicity. The reason is obvious: I am a humanist and an anti racist. I oppose Jewish racism and exceptionalism, whether it is Zionist or \u2018anti\u2019 Zionist.<\/h5>\n
If anything, the list of quotes that was initially put together to defame me, actually achieves the complete opposite: it stands as a glimpse into Jewish Marxist morbid philosophy.\u00a0 And it certainly suggests what the topics are that the Anti Zionist Zionists want us to avoid.<\/h5>\n
They for instance, do not want us to explore the colonial hoax \u2014 They quote my attack on one of their ideological mentors, the archaic Two-Stater Marxist, Moshe Machover:<\/h5>\n
\u201cMachover\u2019s reading of Zionism is pretty trivial. \u00a0\u2018Israel,\u2019 he says, is a \u2018settler state.\u2019 \u00a0For Machover this is a necessary point of departure because it sets Zionism as a colonialist expansionist project. \u00a0The reasoning behind such a lame intellectual spin is obvious. \u00a0As long as Zionism is conveyed as a colonial project, Jews, as a people, should be seen as ordinary people. \u00a0They are no different from the French and the English, they just happen to run their deadly colonial project in a different time.\u201d <\/em>(http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/<\/a>)<\/h5>\n
Where is the problem exactly? Is it really anti-Semitic or racist to suggest that the Marxist colonial paradigm is a lame spin? Clearly not: it may be right or wrong but it isn\u2019t anti-Semitic. The truth of the matter is that Israel and Zionism are not colonial projects and have never been. Colonialism presents a clear materialist and spiritual exchange between a Mother State and a Settler State. But the Jewish State has never had a Mother State. In other words,\u00a0Israel is a Jewish nationalist settlement project and its Jewishness is inherent to its racist, tribal, exceptionalist nature.<\/h5>\n
My Private Defamation League also wants to prevent us from looking into Jewish heritage and the role of the Old Testament in shaping the unethical Israeli attitudes, politics and practices. They quote me saying,<\/h5>\n
\u201cThe never-ending robbery of Palestine by Israel in the name of the Jewish people establishes a devastating spiritual, ideological, cultural and, obviously, practical continuum between the Judaic Bible and the Zionist project. \u00a0The crux of the matter is simple yet disturbing: Israel and Zionism are both successful political systems that put into devastating practice the plunder promised by the Judaic God in the Judaic holy scriptures\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cSwindler\u2019s List: Zionist Plunder and the Judaic Bible,\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Redress Information & Analysis, April 5, 2008)<\/h5>\n
I am trying to figure it out: why, exactly, are a bunch of alleged \u2018progressive\u2019 Jews and one Angry Arab opposing a search into the topic?<\/h5>\n
The answer is immediate:\u00a0they obviously realise that in my writing I do not differentiate between Zionism and Anti Zionist Zionists. As far as I am concerned, they are both equally racist and supremacist.<\/h5>\n
\u201cSadly, we have to admit that hate-ridden plunder of other people\u2019s possessions made it into the Jewish political discourse both on the left and right. \u00a0The Jewish nationalist would rob Palestine in the name of the right of self-determination; the Jewish progressive is there to rob the ruling class and even international capital in the name of world working class revolution\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0(Ibid)<\/h5>\n
Is it really racist to criticise Israel or Jewish Marxism ala Bund? Are Jewish political ideologies beyond criticism? Is this the true meaning of chosen-ness?<\/h5>\n
The Atzmon Defamation League wouldn\u2019t allow us to discuss Jewish ideological supremacy. For some reason they are convinced that there is something wrong in my suggesting that,<\/h5>\n
\u201cI do not consider the Jews to be a race, and yet it is obvious that \u201cJewishness\u201d clearly involves an ethno-centric and racially supremacist, exclusivist point of view that is based on a sense of Jewish \u201cchosen-ness.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(\u201cAn Interesting Exchange With A Jewish Anti Zionist<\/span>\u201d<\/a>)<\/h5>\n
The message is clear: The Atzmon Defamation League contends that Jews are somehow special and beyond criticism \u2014 but they won\u2019t allow us explore this specialness<\/h5>\n
The Atzmon Defamation League is pretty amusing, in spite of the fact that the league is engaged in a rabbinical excommunication exercise against me. They are criticising me for pointing out what the Jewish\u00a0Herem\u00a0exercise is all about.<\/h5>\n
\u00a0\u201cNeither the Zionists nor the \u2018anti Zionists\u2019 managed to drift away from the disastrous herem culture. it seems that the entire world of Jewish identity politics is a matrix of herems and exclusion strategies.\u00a0 In order to be \u2018a proper Jew,\u2019 all you have to do is to point out whom you oppose, hate, exclude or boycott.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(\u201cThe Herem Law in the context of Jewish Past and Presen<\/span>t<\/span>,\u201d<\/a>)<\/h5>\n
My Defamation League doesn\u2019t want the Jews to learn or understand their past. Like Zionists, they want to control the vision of Jewish history. Hence I am quoted saying ,<\/h5>\n
\u00a0\u201cWithin the discourse of Jewish politics and history there is no room for causality. \u00a0There is no such a thing as a former and a latter. \u00a0Within the Jewish tribal discourse every narrative starts to evolve when Jewish pain establishes itself. \u00a0This obviously explains why Israelis and some Jews around the world can only think as far as \u2018two state solution\u2019 within the framework of 1967 borders. \u00a0It also explains why for most Jews the history of the holocaust starts in the gas chambers or with the rise of the Nazis. \u00a0I have hardly seen any Israelis or Jews attempt to understand the circumstances that led to the clear resentment of Europeans towards their Jewish neighbours in the 1920\u2032s-40\u2032s.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Jewish Ideology and World Peace<\/span>,\u201d<\/a>)<\/h5>\n
Needless to say that I am very proud by each of the quotes picked by my private detractor league.\u00a0\u00a0This bunch of Anti Zionist Zionists\u00a0attempt to block any possible criticism of Jewish identity politics and Jewish history. Like any hard core Zionist my Marxist Defamation League succumbs to the vision that Jews are somehow special. They must believe that Jewish history, culture, ideology and identity are beyond criticism.<\/h5>\n
But they don\u2019t stand a chance. We will open this discourse. We will celebrate our freedom to think, to exchange and to explore.<\/h5>\n
Tragically enough, the Atzmon Defamation League, refrains from engaging in an intellectual or ideological exchange. \u00a0The meaning of it is devastating. Like the Zionists, the so called Jewish \u2018anti\u2019 Zionists have managed to exclude themselves from the most crucial discourse regarding Jewish identity politics. Voluntarily and consciously they set themselves apart from the public discourse. They react exactly like the Israelis; they build around themselves a wall of deafness and blindness. This wall is consistent with their Jewish ideological philosophy but it is also symptomatic of their growing irrelevance.<\/h5>\n
Let\u2019s meet the Atzmon Defamation League*<\/h5>\n